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Éxodo librario en la biblioteca capitular de Oviedo: el Codex miscellaneus ovetensis (manuscrito escurialense R.II.18)

2006; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

1941-0476

Carlos Benjamín Pereira Mira,

Early Modern Spanish Literature

Resumen: El articulo ofrece una sintesis descriptiva de las primeras noticias sobre el Codex miscellaneus ovetensis (Real Biblioteca de El Escorial, signatura R.II.18). En 1572 Ambrosio de Morales, cronista real bajo Felipe II, visita la libreria de la catedral de Oviedo; alli contempla el codice e informa de su existencia y contenidos. En 1599 Juan Go­mez Perez Grial, canonigo de Calahorra, utiliza uno de esos contenidos —el De natura rerum — en la edicion critica de las obras completas de san Isidoro de Sevilla. En 1630 Juan de Fonseca y Figueroa, maestrescuela de Sevilla, expolia el manuscrito por mandato de don Gaspar de Guzman, conde duque de Olivares. En 1654 Gaspar de Haro y Guzman, marques de Heliche, dona el codice a la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial. Palabras clave: Ambrosio de Morales, libreria de la cate­dral de Oviedo, Codex miscellaneus ovetensis , conde duque de Olivares, Real Biblioteca de El Escorial, Felipe II. Abstract: The present article offers a short descriptive sum­mary of the first news that we have got about the Codex Mis­cellaneus Ovetensis (Escorial’s Royal Library, catalogue num­ber R.II.18) [see LOWE, C.L.A., XI, numbers 1631-1634]: it’s, by many reasons, one of the more important manuscripts in the Spanish Early Middle Ages. This book -factitious, pa­limpsest, composed by ninety five leaves- contains twenty five diferent texts of History, Geography and Patristics. In the year 1572, Ambrosio de Morales, royal chronicler in the reign of Felipe II, visits the Oviedo’s Cathedral Library: in this place see the manuscript and enquires into its existence and contents. In the year 1599, Juan Gomez Perez Grial, Calahorra’s canon, uses one of those contents -De natura re­rum ad Sisebutum- in the critical edition of Isidoro de Sevilla’ Complete Works. Between the years 1577-1580, the aragonese historian Jeronimo de Zurita, transcribes the piece included in the leaves 44ro-47ro and 67ro-82vo: Imperatoris Antonini Augusti Itineraria provinciarum et maritimum. In the year 1613, Luis Alfonso de Carvallo, a jesuit author, assures that the R.II.18 was still in Oviedo’s Cathedral Library. In the year 1630, Juan de Fonseca y Figueroa, Sevilla’s schoolmaster, spoliates the manuscript of the Oviedo’s Cathedral Library by order of Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares. Fi­nally, in the year 1654, Gaspar de Haro y Guzman, Heliche’s Marquis, gives the manuscript as donation to the Escorial’s Royal Library. In this place, under catalogue number R.II.18, is zealously guarded at the present time by Jose Luis del Valle Merino, the Director. See also about it our recent article titled «Un afamado codice otrora perteneciente a la libreria de la catedral de Oviedo», published in the review Boletin de la Asociacion Asturiana de Bibliotecarios, Archiveros, Docu­mentalistas y Museologos, 2/2 (2003), pages 25-28. Keywords: Ambrosio de Morales, Oviedo’s Cathedral Li­brary, Codex miscellaneus ovetensis , Count-Duke of Olivares, Escorial’s Royal Library, Felipe II.